BCT Editorial – 12/30/09

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On-time delivery; Editorial; Beaver County Times; December 30, 2009.

It’s clear the Times believes we have short memories.

It’s easy to support giving veterans what they earned and deserve, but here are some previous examples of “troop support” by the Times. First, though the Times told us in graphic terms the surge wouldn’t work (here, here, here, here, here), it said go ahead anyway. The point was to set up the Times to claim it was right regardless of how things transpired. At the time I wrote, “What a gutless position! Worse than gutless, it displays an amazing lack of principles and a willingness to sacrifice American lives to make a political point. If the Times truly believes ‘the effort to pacify Iraq most likely will fail and that many more American personnel will be killed, maimed and wounded in a futile effort,’ it has a moral obligation to fight against the troop increase.”

Second, when Gen. Petraeus reported the surge was having success, the Times told us he was “playing a numbers game.”

Third, you’ll recall the Times gave credit for progress in Iraq over the last 20+ months to the “Sunni awakening,” Iran, and Muqtada al-Sadr, not our troops.

You can’t be willing to sacrifice American lives in an apparent effort to make a political point and then expect us to believe you’re sincere when you claim to want our veterans to get what they earned and deserve.